Andrew Ryan Quotes

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• In the end what separates a man from a slave? Money? Power? No, a man chooses, and a slave obeys!
• Stop, would you kindly? 'Would you kindly'. Powerful phrase. Familiar phrase? Sit, would you kindly? Stand, would you kindly? Run! Stop! Turn. A man chooses,…
• A man has a choice. I chose the impossible. I built a city where the artist would not fear the censor, where the great would…
• A man has a choice.. I chose.. the impossible!
• A free man chooses, a slave obeys
• Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?
• What is the difference between a man and a parasite? A man builds, a parasite asks 'Where's my share?' A man creates, a parasite says…
• An artist strives to frame his ideals in an image; to challenge his audience and to make his vision immortal. But the parasites say 'no,…
• In what country is there a place for people like me?
• It was not impossible to build Rapture at the bottom of the sea. It was impossible to build it anywhere else.
• With the sweat of your brow. Rap­ture can become your city as well.
• Whenever anyone wants others to do their work they call upon their Altruism. 'Never mind your own needs,' they say, 'Think of the needs of...…
• I believe in no God, no invisible man in the sky. But there is something more powerful than each of us, a combination of our…
• Lacking its own ingenuity, the parasite fears the visionary. What it cannot plagiarize, it seeks to censor. What it cannot regulate, it seeks to ban.
• God did not plant the seeds of this Arcadia. I did.
• Could I have made mistakes? One does not build cities if one is guided by doubt. But can one govern in absolute certainty? I know…
• Altruism is the root of all Wickedness
• To build a city at the bottom of the sea: insanity. But where else could we be free from the clutching hand of the parasites?…

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